History Headscratchers / CallOfDutyGhosts

** Guns work fine in zero-g and even in a vacuum. Infantry scale laser weaponry doesn't really exist in Ghosts, so outfitting astronauts with them would be impossible. Harpoon huns would be terrible in combat, they're big, single shot, and would be hard to come by given the circumstances. Also the guns they use in the underwater levels are real and were built to be used underwater.

* What's the deal with all the new/unrecognizable guns in this game? We have the .44 Magnum, but all the other ones are either fictional or given completely different names. I know this is supposed to be a futuristic setting, but you'd think we'd still be able to see more weapons from the 2000s (decade, not century) in this game. And yes, I know that the [=M4A1=] and UMP-45 were DummiedOut, and the M9 is called the M9A1, but what's the deal? Were the game designers deliberately trying to alienate gun enthusiasts or something?

** The US seems to have no issue with ignoring whatever international treaties are particularly inconvenient for it at the time. Bonus points because they can argue "They're just giant bullets, not nuclear weapons or WMDs!"
** Legally speaking, WMDs usually refers to CBRN (chemical, bioilogical, nuclear, radiological) weapons. A kinetic impactor is technically none of these things. And as long as the US has a seat on the UN security council, it has veto power over any attempt to legally re-define WMDs to include orbital bombardment.

* What's the deal with all the new/unrecognizable guns in this game? We have the .44 Magnum, but all the other ones are either fictional or given completely different names. I know this is supposed to be a futuristic setting, but you'd think we'd still be able to see more weapons from the 2000s (decade, not century) in this game. And yes, I know that the M4A1 and UMP-45 were DummiedOut, and the M9 is called the M9A1, but what's the deal? Were the game designers deliberately trying to alienate gun enthusiasts or something?

** Guns work fine in zero-g and even in a vacuum. Infantry scale laser weaponry doesn't really exist in Ghosts, so outfitting astronauts with them would be impossible. Harpoon huns would be terrible in combat, they're big, single shot, and would be hard to come by given the circumstances. Also the guns they use in the underwater levels are real and were built to be used underwater.

** [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Ghosts Most of the guns are real, just newer, and use names pretty close to their real names.]] I guess IW just wanted to throw in some cool new cutting edge gear.

* What's the deal with all the new/unrecognizable guns in this game? We have the .44 Magnum, but all the other ones are either fictional or given completely different names. I know this is supposed to be a futuristic setting, but you'd think we'd still be able to see more weapons from the 2000s (decade, not century) in this game. And yes, I know that the M4A1 and UMP-45 were DummiedOut, and the M9 is called the M9A1, but what's the deal? Were the game designers deliberately trying to alienate gun enthusiasts or something?

* How did the Federation get space capability? Even if the Federation were somehow able to make a continent spanning nation, as well as conquer Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, then move onto the US, it would require billions of dollars of resources, research, manpower, and development to make a way to create a vehicle to take over ODIN. All the while dealing with establishing a new centralized government, putting down local rebellions, building up a military, the infrastructure to provide for their citizenry, etc. How did they accomplish such a thing?

*** 120,000 troops is nothing to sneer at. Especially if you're fighting a loosing war.

*** The Ghosts are one of America's most elite military units, and like with real life elite units, the names and faces of its members are most likely a closely guarded military secret, the kind of information that is known only to those who need to know. Elias' sons didn't need to know.
*** And yet, the main antagonist already knows the identity of all the Ghosts, making it a pretty poorly kept secret.

* Why did Elias have the truck parked miles away from his own house during the prologue? How is getting in a truck safer than just hiding in a doorframe or under a table?

** [[IdiotBall there wouldn't be a game without someone making completely stupid design choices and mistakes]]

** There main motivation appears to be territorial expansion and conquest, at least of the hemisphere. After that, who knows? [[ModernWarfare2 They might engage in a pointless and unwinnable war on another continent]] or they might be content. [[TakeOverTheWorld Standard badguy motivation, really.]] Which is a bit of a waste, since they could have been after revenge for American imperialism (think rhetoric of Hugo Chavez) or, since they controlled Mexico, [[MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack a return of the area stolen in the Mexican-American War]] (California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, all places that they invaded). They could have played with the fact that the US, a former superpower, is now on the receiving end of gunboat diplomacy. But since these motives weren't fleshed out at all... it all comes off kind of like a [[UnfortunateImplications racist argument against Hispanic immigration or something.]]

** [[IdiotBall there wouldn't be a game without someone making completely stupid design choices and mistakes]]

* So much of ODIN's design seems incredibly shortsighted. Given the level of destruction it's capable of, why doesn't it have security similar to America's nuclear arsenal, with arming codes that are kept on Earth, and the use of them requiring the authorization of the president? Why have explosives to scuttle the station next to ODIN, but not ODIN itself? Finally, how did the Feds hijack the spacecraft to get to ODIN without anyone noticing?

** Yet he still wanted them to become Ghosts...

**** I know it isn't stated, but just from what we're shown I'd guess that the goal is to take complete control of the Western Hemisphere and become the world's chief superpower. Another goal could be to keep the economy stimulated with continuous war production or artificially low unemployment via massive military expansion. Yet another could be to keep the Federation from tearing itself apart by focusing all rage and frustration on a common enemy; its made up of what were independent countries not that long ago.